Science 2.06: Identify and use models, maps and aerial diagrams as ways of representing landforms.
Lesson Objectives:
-The student will understand the relationship between the model and the diagram. -The student will be able to create a model based on a diagram provided. -The student will analyze the photograph in order to accurately re-create the diagram as a model. -The student will compare and contrast between the diagram and the model.
Assessment:
Group Activity and Assessment Procedures: Students will be assessed in groups. For step by step procedures of this group activity, see "Procedures" below.
Assessment Rubric: The models created by the groups will be assessed using the following rubric.
Artifact: Open-ended questions on comparing and contrasting between the diagram and the model.
Materials/Tools:
Aerial diagram of an area that includes multiple landforms. Cut the aerial diagram into desired number of pieces (1 per group).
Mold-able materials such as previously made salt dough or an alternative pre-made substance such as clay, preferably one color.
A hard, flat base such as cardboard, posterboard or pizza boxes.
Shaping materials such as plastic utensils, toothpicks, etc.
Introduction:
Provide a variety of models (i.e., matchbox cars, dinosaurs, and educational models) that students may personally relate to in order to examine relationships among models and the actual objects that they represent. Then allow students to create a list of differences between the models and the actual objects. Students should discuss their experiences with models and modeling-making in Crystal Island.
Procedures:
Give the students a portion of the aerial diagram of landforms (see Materials/Tools above) and allow them to discuss what it would look like from a non-aerial perspective. Students will then make a plan of how to create a model for their portion of the aerial diagram. Allow students to create a model using salt dough, provided to the students. Allow the students to present their section of the diagram to the class. After each group makes their presentation, the models representing each portion of the aerial diagram should be left on a table next to one another so that students can arrange them in the format of the original diagram. Students will analyze their model to evaluate the relationships between the whole diagram and their models. Students should focus on comparing and contrasting the diagram and their models. Each group of students will provide a written paragraph summarizing their evaluations.
2.06: Identify and use models, maps and aerial diagrams as ways of representing landforms.
-The student will be able to create a model based on a diagram provided.
-The student will analyze the photograph in order to accurately re-create the diagram as a model.
-The student will compare and contrast between the diagram and the model.
Students will be assessed in groups. For step by step procedures of this group activity, see "Procedures" below.
Assessment Rubric:
The models created by the groups will be assessed using the following rubric.
Artifact: Open-ended questions on comparing and contrasting between the diagram and the model.
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